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influence and lobbying reporter at POLITICO | Brussels 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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The MAGA-friendly European think tanks Trump wants to fund The Heritage Foundation identified European groups for U.S. backing.

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": The U.S. is reorienting its foreign funding program to export #MAGA ideology to Europe β€” and a growing set of far-right and conservative think tanks and political groups are lining up to take Washington’s money. 🧡 www.politico.eu/article/maga...

13.02.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 244    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 42
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Mandelson should lose pension if he broke EU rules in Epstein scandal, campaigners sayΒ  European officials are β€œassessing” whether the ex-commissioner contravened the ethics code.

Disgraced British politician Peter Mandelson is facing demands to be stripped of his pension as a former European commissioner if investigators found he broke EU rules over his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

04.02.2026 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4
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Slovak PM Robert Fico β€” an ally of Donald Trump β€” was left shocked at the U.S. president's state of mind after a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, five European diplomats told us.

Fico was concerned about Trump's "psychological state," two of them said.

πŸ”— www.politico.eu/article/dona...

28.01.2026 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 520    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 62
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🍷 The health NGO funding cuts are starting to bite - Europe's anti-alcohol NGO, the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), will close its Brussels office after the Commission withdraws funding 🍷

pro.politico.eu/news/207703

03.11.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ombudsman probes Commission over red-tape-cutting chats with industry The watchdog is examining a complaint that the executive has been β€œevasive” about its meetings with lobbyists.

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί mini-scoop! πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

The EU's watchdog is probing whether the European Commission acted secretively in its dealings with industry before launching a series of business-friendly initiatives

www.politico.eu/article/ombu...

29.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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European Commission under pressure over Hungarian spying allegations MEPs want to know if the EU executive knew about alleged Hungarian spying. Some are calling for Commissioner OlivΓ©r VΓ‘rhelyi to resign if implicated.

πŸ•΅οΈThe alleged Hungarian embassy spy ring was an open secret in Brussels, say EU officials who tell us they were approached by intelligence officers.

So what did the European Commission know?

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

22.10.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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OrbΓ‘n rival Magyar accuses VΓ‘rhelyi of β€˜not revealing whole truth’ in Hungarian spy affair Challenger Peter Magyar holds a sharp lead on the Hungarian prime minister ahead of the April election in Hungary.

Viktor OrbΓ‘n’s rival PΓ©ter Magyar has accused Hungarian Commissioner Oliver VΓ‘rhelyi of holding back information as an ambassador during a period when a spy ring is alleged to have operated out of his office.

15.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hoekstra’s mano a mano with China wobbles climate summit EU’s top climate envoy’s war of words sparks fears of diplomatic discord ahead of COP30.

"Some were left wondering what Hoekstra hoped to achieve when he attacked Beijing for a β€œclearly disappointing” climate plan β€” especially after the EU had failed to present its own strategy."

w. @l-guillot.bsky.social and @marieccles.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/wopk...

13.10.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

thank you!

19.09.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

diolch!

26.05.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Top colleague @roneilll.bsky.social got hold of the EU's plan to secure Europe's drug supply a day before the Commission announces it. Full Critical Medicines Act doc from him and @claudiachiappa.bsky.social here for Pros (€) pro.politico.eu/news/195310

10.03.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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With Smoke Free Partnership, we've written to European Parliament President Metsola about #tobacco industry interference 🚭

MEPs held 100+ meetings with tobacco #lobbyists during 2019-2024

Since the elections, there were already more than 33 such meetings 🀯

www.corporateeurope.org/en/tobacco-i...

24.01.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Portugal’s Teresa Anjinho elected EU ethics watchdog She takes over from Emily O’Reilly, who has was in the role for more than a decade.

Teresa Anjinho, who sits on the supervisory board of the European Anti-Fraud Office, was elected on Tuesday as the new European ombudsman for a five-year term.

17.12.2024 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

If any news outlet is looking for a stringer in the region, my former Politico colleague @clothildegouj.bsky.social has moved to Amman β€” reports in French and English + speaks Arabic + is an excellent journalist

08.12.2024 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Up to 1 in 5 households in Europe experience catastrophic spending because of health-care costs, new WHO digital platform shows Up to 20% of households across Europe experience catastrophic health spending – costs driven mainly by out-of-pocket payments for medicines – restricting people from paying for other basic needs such ...

WHO: Up to 1 in 5 households in Europe experience β€œcatastrophic spending” because of high #healthcare costs.

β€œNo one should have to choose between paying for life-saving #medicines and meeting basic needs like food and housing.”

Dr Hans Kluge of @who.int Europe

www.who.int/europe/news-...

06.12.2024 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The EPP's (draft) legislative wish list for the next 12 months w/ @ziaweise.bsky.social for Politico Pros πŸŽ„πŸŽ
pro.politico.eu/news/190693

06.12.2024 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0